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Maier & Maier was established with the goal of providing intellectual property analysis and advice for large, multi-national corporations, universities, middle-market and emerging market companies, and startups and spinouts. We are proud of our ability to advise our clients, and to obtain patent protection for a wide scale of technologies, and offer years of experience in litigation, licensing, and other intellectual property-related issues.

The History of Our Firm

RESTORE Patent Rights Act of 2024 – An Attempt To Bring Back Permanent Injunctions. Permanently.

Over the summer, Congressman Nathaniel Moran (R-TX-01), a member of the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, and the Internet, and Congresswoman Madeleine Dean (D-PA-04) introduced the bicameral Realizing Engineering, Science, and Technology Opportunities by Restoring Exclusive (RESTORE) Patent Rights Act of 2024. This bipartisan bill aims to restore patentees’ abilities to protect their […]

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Trademark Q3 2024 updates, data at a glance

Trends in First Action Pendency at the USPTO As many may be familiar with, in recent years trademark pendency times at the USPTO have rapidly increased, with the average first action pendency time in Q1-Q4 of 2023 reaching over 8 months. The USPTO attributes this increase in pendency times primarily to the fact that it […]

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USPTO Terminating After Final Consideration Pilot (AFCP) Program 2.0

The USPTO will publish a notice in the Federal Register on October 1, 2024, stating that it will no longer accept AFCP 2.0 requests after December 14, 2024. The current AFCP program (AFCP 2.0) was adopted in May of 2013.  The AFCP program is an attempt to reduce the number of requests for continued examination […]

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